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Denier Bracteate
| Issuer | Holy Roman Empire |
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| Year | 1190-1250 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Stylized eagle displayed in the bracteate tradition, featuring a relatively small head with a separated beak whose upper mandible overlaps the lower tip. The wings are rendered with a slight inward curvature, giving the figure a compact, heraldic quality characteristic of late 12th- to mid-13th-century German bracteate coinage. The design is struck in high relief on the thin silver flan, with the eagle occupying the central field. No legend or inscription is present. |
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| Mintage | ND (1190-1250) |
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Bracteates of this period were struck across hundreds of small ecclesiastical and secular lordships simultaneously, each hammering their own dies with minimal oversight from any central authority — the Holy Roman Empire in name, but in minting practice an almost entirely fragmented system. The extreme thinness required a single-sided strike against a yielding surface, typically leather or lead, producing the characteristic embossed ghost impression on the reverse.
Survival rates are poor. The foil-weight fabric cracks along stress lines and rarely survives burial intact.